An updated version of Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes by Phyllis Pellman Good was recently released. Her Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook: Slow-Cooker Favorites to Include Everyone! and Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker are better cookbooks for those of us who want to watch what [...]
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Crock Pot and Slow Cooker
Healthy slow cooker fajita stew
Fix-it and Forget-it: slow cooker machaca beef
Healthy vegetarian slow cooker recipes: Louisiana Ratouille
Slow cooker recipes: homemade onion soup mix and a venison shoulder roastThis high fiber and protein and low in Weight Watchers POINTS recipe comes from The Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Over 200 Delicious Recipes by Judith Finlayson. She believes that more people than ever are choosing to reduce their consumption of meat for health, environmental and financial reasons. Instead, they’re choosing to eat diets rich in vegetables, [...]
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day: making slow cooker corned beef and cabbage healthierI look forward to having corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day even though it’s so high in fat and calories. (Every ounce of lean corned beef brisket has 53 calories and 2.2 grams of fat. Check the label to see what type you’re buying.) To make it my slow cooker corned beef and [...]
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Weight Watchers for St. Patrick’s Day: corned beef and cabbageThis crockpot recipe is based on a New Mexican style dish by Jeanne Allen in the cookbook, FIX-IT and FORGET-IT LIGHTLY: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker. Machaca meat is used to stuff tacos, burritos, enchiladas, or is eaten by itself. I liked serving it “soupy” on brown rice. According to David Bulla at [...]
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Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook
Weight Watcher’s Sweet and Sour Slow Cooker Chicken CurryI’ve noticed that a lot of readers come here looking for crockpot and slow cooker recipes. Since I aim to please, I’ll be sharing a few of the ones I’ve recently made for my family. This one is based on a recipe by Sara Puskar and Nancy Wagner Graves that was featured in FIX-IT and [...]
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Healthy crockpot dishes: Pork, Squash, Butternut and Zucchini Stew
Healthy Super Bowl dishes: Beefy Squash and Zucchini StewA few more days to the big game! Have you decided what you want to serve yet? Here are some healthy recipes to help you out whether you’re throwing a Super Bowl party or bringing a dish to a potluck. Here at This Mama Cooks!: Beefy Squash and Zucchini Stew Pork, Squash, Butternut and Zucchini [...]
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A healthy Super Bowl dip recipe from Weight Watchers
Healthy Super Bowl party recipes: crock pot pulled meat sandwiches and moreWith the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl games coming up, preparing a healthy slow cooker dish ahead of time is a great way to keep your family and party guests fed while you watch the game. This dish is based on Pork and Butternut Squash Stew found in the February 2010 issue of Ladies Home [...]
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Happy Hanukkah! Healthy Butternut Squash and Sage Latkes
Butternut squash soup
Weight Wather’s Curry-Apple Butternut Squash SaladPlanning your meals is an important part of any diet, especially Weight Watchers. Either you need to make sure that your pantry and refrigerator are filled with nutritious, low calorie and high fiber foods – beans, whole wheat pasta, skim milk, fruit and veggies, etc. Or you need to prepare meals in advance so you [...]
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Healthy freezer meals for busy dieters and their families
An Update, Rethinking the Diet Plan and Some Crab
5 Things to Consider When Picking a Diet Plan
Healthy holiday polymeal cooking with the Healthiest Meals on EarthJust when Thanksgiving and Christmas weight gains have finally been dieted off, here comes another eating holiday – SUPER BOWL. I love celebrating this American iconic event with a feast and have done healthy Super Bowl recipes and not so healthy (New England clam chowder and Philly cheese steak anyone?) in the past. Since I’m [...]
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Super Bowl XXXIX party recipes
Super Bowl party – New England clam chowder
Super Bowl party – Weight Watchers take on the chowder
Super Bowl Party – Philly cheese steakToday we have a guest post about the new Weight Watchers Momentum Plan from LaaLoosh.com, a blog primarily dedicated to sharing delicious and exciting Weight Watchers Recipes that are low in Points, but not in taste. The author of LaaLoosh has been an avid Weight Watchers member for many years and really enjoys finding new [...]
Weight Watchers Sausage, Apple and Cornbread Stuffing
